‘Mother Is God’ is a haunting ballad of abandonment, delusion, and the wreckage cults leave behind, and the latest single from Abertooth Lincoln, due 29thAugust via Golden Robot Records.
Their first true ballad, ‘Mother Is God’ is a slow-burning meditation on cult leader Amy Carlson – Told from the imagined perspective of the child she left behind. It wrestles with the devastating contradiction of a woman who claimed to love the world but couldn’t love her own kid.
Musically, the track stretches Abertooth LIncoln’s dynamic range: down-tempo and restrained in moments but laced with dissonance and tension that builds to a gripping, cathartic conclusion. Lyrically, it’s intimate and unflinching – capturing the pain of being cast aside while exposing the seductive, hollow nature of cults and the narcissists who lead them. Like many songs on Abertooth Lincoln’s upcoming album, ‘Mother is God’ explores how self-styled prophets often cloak self-interest in spiritual rhetoric, leaving real damage in their wake.
At its heart is a powerful parallel: the child’s yearning for connection mirrors the desperation felt by those who fall under a cult’s spell – a hunger for love and meaning that is met, again and again, with manipulation and betrayal.
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